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Charles Bruce Fergusson was born in Port Morien, N.S. on 14 February 1911, the son of Norman Fergusson and his wife, Eva Jane (Spencer). He was educated at the Nova Scotia Normal College, Dalhousie University (BA) and Oxford University (BA, MA, D.Ph.). He married H. Evelyn Tyler in 1955. During WW II, he was associated with the Works Branch of the Eastern Air Command, was a civil service examiner with the federal government in Ottawa and then joined the Navy. He returned to work as a civil service examiner after the war and was appointed Assistant Provincial Archivist of Nova Scotia in 1946. From 1946 to 1950 he was also a lecturer in contemporary history at Nova Scotia Technical College. In 1956 he was appointed Provincial Archivist and from 1957 was also an associate professor of history at Dalhousie University. He served as chairman of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. He published numerous articles on the history of Nova Scotia. Dr Fergusson retired as Provincial Archivist in 1977 and died at Halifax on 20 September 1978.